Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Age. In Chicago, a stray horse turned up at the Municipal Airport, galloped gaily around the runways and brought air traffic to a halt for half an hour. In Charleston, W.Va., Frank Isaacs landed his seaplane on the Kanawha River, got run over by a steamboat...
...ancient Hindu holy book, the Vishnu Purana, he could recall, says that the life of man will run in four cycles. The last is to be the Age of Kali. It closes in, says the book, when "society reaches a stage where property confers rank, wealth, becomes the only source of virtue, passion, the sole bond of union between husband and wife, falsehood the source of success in life, sex the only means of enjoyment, and when outer trappings are confused with inner religion...
Willing Loser. Camille was one of twelve children born on his father's river barge. He went to work on a farm at the age of twelve, grew up to be a side show wrestler at country fairs. A straightforward ox of a man, Bombois still has all the complacent assurance that size and strength can impart. Nevertheless, he deliberately lost almost all his wrestling matches. "The crowd was more generous," Bombois explains, "when I let myself be beaten by the local champion. I cashed in on their good will, until once I lost my temper with an opponent...
...Young man on the right, my Young readers," and the Sage of the Age, and a very Young age it is too, "is Leeward Skreindler, Young Dartmouth politics, cheerleader, and vendor of hand-painted ties. When not practicing the old locomotive, Skreindler is prone to wend his way upward on the political ladder two, Youngs at a time...
James C. Petrille has every right to be concerned about the unhealthy economic state of American musicians as a group. The industry is acutely overcrowded, a condition for which one cure would be an application of the age old rule of the survival of the fittest. But Petrilo's is a different prognosis, although it involves almost as old a principle, namely that technological progress constitutes a social menace. The new record ban, according to his announcement, is not just a means of obtaining for musicians a bigger share of the $210,000,000 annual income from recordings...